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On Friday 31 March 2006 19:47, Neil Williams wrote: > On Friday 31 March 2006 11:06 am, David Bell wrote: > > Speaking purely as a Debian Sarge home desktop user, sitting behind a > > router and IPCop box, is it a significant security risk to permit root to > > log-in to the KDE Desktop? > > There is nothing you can do with a root login that you cannot do from a > user login with su and/or sudo. Agreed, but it doesn't answer my original question. Is there a *security* risk using Root logins, for purely administering the system, versus su/sudo as a user. Discounting the tales of woe about idiots who browse/email etc. or bumble fingers that delete files etc.; whilst logged in as Root. > > In all cases, the user account is preferable because you really shouldn't > be using web browsers and email clients as root. (When you're trying to fix > problems on a box by being root, you can't tell me you aren't going to want > to browse Google or check for answers via email.) An assumption that a person will invoke sod's law. Being a GUI sort of person there ain't any browsers or email icons on the Root desktop to tempt me :~) -- W. Devon ------------- A GNU/Linux user -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html